Stanley R. (Stan) Hamilton, MD, FCAP, AGAF, is a digestive system and molecular pathologist and Professor in the Department of Pathology at the City of Hope National Medical Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center. A native of Indiana, Dr. Hamilton received his medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine, followed by internship and residency in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital in Baltimore and a fellowship at St. Mark’s Hospital in London. He continued at Johns Hopkins as a faculty member until 1998 when he was recruited to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as Professor and Head of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He joined City of Hope in 2000 where he served as Chair of the Department of Pathology until 2025 and is the Director of the Clinical Tissue Specimen Qualification Laboratory and the Research Pathology Services Shared Resource. He is internationally known as an expert in gastrointestinal pathology with focus on colorectal cancer.

Dr. Hamilton is Vice Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, WIN Consortium.